ON THE TRAIL OF NEGRO FOLK-SONGS - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook ON THE TRAIL OF NEGRO FOLK-SONGS write by DOROTHY. SCARBOROUGH. This book was released on 2018. ON THE TRAIL OF NEGRO FOLK-SONGS available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
On the Trail of Negro Folk-songs
On the Trail of Negro Folk-songs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On the Trail of Negro Folk-songs write by Dorothy Scarborough. This book was released on 1953. On the Trail of Negro Folk-songs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
On the Trail of Negro Folk-songs
On the Trail of Negro Folk-songs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On the Trail of Negro Folk-songs write by Dorothy Scarborough. This book was released on 1963. On the Trail of Negro Folk-songs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
On the Trail of Negro Folk-Songs (Classic Reprint)
On the Trail of Negro Folk-Songs (Classic Reprint) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On the Trail of Negro Folk-Songs (Classic Reprint) write by Dorothy Scarborough. This book was released on 2017-11-18. On the Trail of Negro Folk-Songs (Classic Reprint) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Excerpt from On the Trail of Negro Folk-Songs I have had this active interest as a collector for about ten years, but in reality I suppose I began in my cradle. Both of my grand fathers owned large plantations with many slaves, my Grandfather Scarborough in Louisiana and Grandfather Ellison in East Texas, and so my parents grew up amid a wealth of Negro folk-lore and song, which they passed on to us children. And most of my own life has been spent in the South, where I have had opportunity to know colored people as a race and as individuals. How many memories of my childhood and youth are associated with loved black faces! How I enjoyed the songs the Negroes sang, even though I was ignorant of their value! If only as I listened I had but learned them accurately, or. Had begun long ago consciously to collect them and record them, I should be fortunate now. If I might go back to that time and say. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
On The Trail Of Negro Folk-Songs
On The Trail Of Negro Folk-Songs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On The Trail Of Negro Folk-Songs write by Dorothy Scarborough. This book was released on 2022-06-02. On The Trail Of Negro Folk-Songs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How often have I overheard alluring snatches of song, only to be baffled by denial when I asked for more. Kindly black faces smile indulgently as at the vagaries of an imaginative child, when I persist in pleading for the rest. "Nawm, honey, I wa and n and t singing nothing — nothing a-tall! " How often have I been tricked into enthusiasm over the promise of folk-songs, only to hear age-worn phonograph records, — but perhaps so changed and worked upon by usage that they could possibly claim to be folk-songs after all! — or Broadway echoes, or conventional songs by white authors! Yet cajolements might be in vain, even though all the time I knew, by the uncanny instinct of folk-lorists, that there were folk-songs there. And even when you get a song started, when you are listening with your heart in your ear and the greed of the folk-lorist in your eye, you may lose out. If you seem too much interested, the song retreats, draws in like a turtle and s head, and no amount of coaxing will make it venture back. And there is something positively fatal about a pencil! Songs seem to be afraid of lead-poisoning. Or perhaps the pencil is secretly attached by a cord (a vocal cord?) to the singer and s tongue. It must be so, for otherwise, why has it so often happened that when I, distrustful of my tricky memory to hold a precious song, have sneaked a pencil out to take notes, the tongue has suddenly jerked back and refused to wag again? Yet that is not always the case, for sometimes the knowledge that his song is being written down inspires a bard with more respect for it and he gives it freely.
